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Chinese Character - ijj. _ TRtrONG e*i HOC sir PHAM TP HO CHI MINH HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION Qlj TAP CHI KHOA HOC JOURNAL OF SCIENCE ISSN. KHOA HOC XA HQl VA NHAN VAN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 1859-3100 Tap16,S6 7 (2019): 15-25 Vol. 16, No. 7(2019)- 15-25 Email: tapci)ikhoahoc%hcmue.edu.vn; Website. http:/Ackh.hcmue.edu.vr Research Article LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE'S IDENTITY OF EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES IN "CHINESE CHARACTER CULTURAL SPHERE" IN THE ANCIENT AND MIDDLE AGES Phan Thu Van Ho Chi Minh City University of Education Corresponding author: Phan Thu Van -Email: [email protected] Received: April 18. 2019; Revised' May 21. 2019; Accepted: June 10, 2019 ABSTRACT Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese literature all used Chinese characters, received Chinese literary influence, and tried to create national writing based on Chinese characters' application. In this article, I will delve into the issue of influential language, literature and literaty genres within the Chinese character cultural sphere, while also detailing the specific nature and temperament of the developmental process in regards to each country's literature Keywords: identity. East Asean literature, Chinese character cultural sphere (iH^X'fbS). 1. Introduction Chinese characters are the root of Han culture and are considered the fifth largest invention of the Chinese nation. The four oldest types of scripts that have ever appeared in the world are: the Egyptian script, the Sumerian script, the Babylonian script and the Chinese script, but only Chinese characters are still alive today, all the others are now dead languages. Chinese characters are used not only in China, but together with Chinese culmre, crossing borders to neighboring countries, forming the "Chinese character culmral sphere". This sphere has proven extremely influential in the development and proliferation of the writing script and national literamre of many countries. It is the goal of the article to contribute to finding common and specific points in the correlation of character and literamre between China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam - the most relevant countries of the "Chinese character culmral sphere". 2. About "Chinese character cultural sphere" (il^:4:^tS) The Chinese character culmral sphere, also known as the "East Asian culmral sphere", "Confucian culmral sphere" or "Kanji culmral sphere", refers to the specific culmral region in East Asia and parts of Southeast Asia that have historically been influenced by Chinese pohtics and culmre and either used Chinese script in the past or remain influenced by them today. Cite this article as: Phan Thu Van (2019). Language and Literature's identity of East Asian countries in "Chinese character cultural sphere" in the ancient and middle ages. Ho Chi Minh City University of Education Journal of Science, 16(7), 15-25. Tap chi Khoa hoc Trircyng BHSP TPHCM ^gpi^^^g / ,^,>/>;. .. ^ 25_ The "cultural circle/field", which originated in German "kulturkreis", was developed in 1897 or 1898 by the German scientist Leo Viktor Frobenius (1873-1938). The Japanese linguist called Kamei Takashi (ll^#, 1912-1995) borrowed the phrase from the Geraans to represent a term about the area of East Asia where the Chinese language was used in ancient times, so it translated into "cultural sphere" XitM. "Kanji/ Hanzi culmral sphere" rH-t-^'ftM from a geographical perspective can be called the East Asian cultural sphere :^^^'(t:ll, and the Japanese historian Nishijima Sadao (Mi!i|'^'^, 1919-1998), professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, was the first one to use this name in his research. Chen Liao (|S^i^, 1931 - now) in his work Extraterritorial Chinese Novels in the Chinese Character Culture Sphere {Q^^XitM^^^^^\-'MX'\''B^} has written that the culmral area of Chinese characters has been expanded five times: the first expansion of the Chinese character cultural sphere was the import of Chinese character culture into the Korean peninsula (It is said that the Chinese text was transmitted to North Korea at the end of the Shang Dynasty - about the 10th cenmry BC); the second time was when the Chinese character culture crossed the sea to Japan (around the 3rd cenmry BC); the third time was when Chinese characters were brought to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, The Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, et. al.; for the fourth time, when the Chinese people crossed the sea on long journeys and brought Chinese characters with them to Europe and America; for the fifth time, the various periods including the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century when writers and students of Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan went to Europe, America, Australia... and later in the eighties and nineties, when mainland Chinese writers and smdents did the same. Along with Chinese characters, ideological doctrines from mainland China were also spread through Korea, Japan, Vietnam... et. al. These countries all had centuries of using Chinese characters, imbued with many Chinese ideological dochines, and composed literamre in Chinese characters, before switching to using their own entirely national scripts. 3. Correlation between Chinese characters and Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese characters In term of scripts, it can be seen that there were four most shared characteristics of Japan, Korea and Vietnam in the ancient and middle ages: firstly they all adopted and used Chinese characters as an official writing system; secondly, they used Chinese characters to record their ethnic languages; next, they all created a new system of characters based on Chinese characters and forming the period of "parallel" language; finally, the national character systems were iniUally disregarded and considered "irregular" and secondary compared to Chinese characters, before developing rapidly and making a great contribution to their national literature. Looking first at Korea, the use of Chinese characters to record important documents Tap chi Khoa hpc Tru-cyng DHSP TPHCIVI p^„„ 2y,„ j/„„ occurred on the Korean peninsula in tlie Three Kingdoms period (57 BC - 668): In the first century, the Goguryeo used Chinese characters to compile 100 historical documents of Yugi ( ((SfS» ), along with many other history boolcs thereafter, showing a high level on using Chinese characters. However, these books are mostly damaged or lost because of historical volatihty After the Chinese characters were transmitted into the Korean peninsula, the ancient Koreans used both the sound and the meaning of Chinese characters as a way to record the national language, which is called "hyangchal" %t4 (#f 1-L). Therefore, in terms of recording ethnic language, "hyangchal" of Korea (since the first century AD) was the first bom, compared to the Manyogana i A^ J; 5 /J> 'i (S"^f£^) - the earliest Japanese phonetic writing system which borrowed from Chinese characters - kanji (from the 5th century AD) and the Vietnamese script "chir Nom" (since around the second cenmry to the 10th century AD). In tlie mid-fifteenth century, Hunminjeongeum S'S^i-B" (SJIISIE'H', meaning accurate sound to guide people) was bom during the reign of King Sejong (1B:>K, reigned from 1418 to 1450) that gave Korean literature a completely new twist. After many ups and downs, finally the phonetic character system that was inspired by the sliape of the Chinese characters became the Korean national language. In early Japan, Chinese characters were regarded as "the sacred language of the Buddha and Buddhist literature" (N.I. Konrat, 1999, p.24). Buddhist epitaphs were found written in Chinese characters, as well as some decrees of the court, the famous law of 17 terms of Prince Shotoku (604), Taiho-ritsuryo ( ((;^3^ll^^)) ) (702), verses in collections of poems Kaifuso ( {{'1^)11^)) ) (751), two historical works Tennoki ( ((?^Ji:fS)) ), and Koki ( ((^E)) ) of Prince Shotoku (620, but lost in 645), historical work Nihongi ( (( 0 ^IB)) ) (720) among others. At the end of the 7th century, Japanese people began to find a way to use Chinese characters to write Japanese. The process of moving from no written language to the creation of the writing system "Kana" is a process of learning, imbuing, and transforming Chinese characters into intrinsic substance based on Japanese language and cultural characteristics. "Kana" is Japan's own phonetic script created from Chinese characters, used m parallel with Chinese characters. "Kana" ^J^:^ J , in Chinese means "pretending/ fake name", to distinguish it from the "real name" TJC^j which refers to the original Chinese language, which was written in different ways like Manyogana, Hiragana, Katakana, etc... In the eariy period, many people stiU held the view that only Chinese characters were worth learning for the upper class. In addition, ancient Japan also distinguished the onode script (:?§^male writing) and nonnade (fe^female writing). The soft, flexible form of written Hiragana was considered the writing of women and children, a kind of "vile" script. It remained that way until Kinotsurayuki (%iW.^), an artist who lived in the 9th-10th century during the Heian period, along with other poets under the reign of Daigo Tenno, selected the antiquated collection of poems Kokin Wakashu ( iti^^faWiM)) ) and decided to use Hiragana to write the book's preface which 17 Tap chi Khoa hoc Tru'dng DHSP TPHCM .'u^'-^y^- ,- ^^^-L- - -25_ opened the "poetics" (Witm), expressed the value of these soft words, and established the position of the national script. Later, Murasaki Shikibu's Genji monogatari ( {{W-Sz^ta)) ) as well as many other outstanding works written in Hiragana by other excellent writers also helped this form of writing to spread widely and gradually take on a more predominant role in literamre and become an important writing system of Japan up until today. In Vietnam, Chinese characters were also used as official national texts for more than ten cenmries. Vietnamese "Chii Nom" is formed on the basis of borrowing parts and the structure of Chinese characters.
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